Natasha Peter

Date of call: 2001 Lincoln's Inn

Natasha practiced from 4-5 Gray's Inn Square between 2002 and 2006, gaining experience in a broad range of commercial, public, local authority, planning, employment and regulatory law matters.

In 2006 she moved to Paris and practices in international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution based in the French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. Her recent experience includes acting as co-counsel in matters relating to joint ventures, construction, energy and general commercial contracts.

Some recent cases include:

• Representing a Tunisian-owned company in an arbitration (ICC Paris) concerning an oil and gas joint venture in North Africa, involving an attempt by the claimant to set aside a sale of shares of the joint venture company.
• Representing a French chemicals company and its Chinese subsidiary in an arbitration (ICC Stockholm) arising out of the breach of a joint venture agreement for the manufacture of chemical products in China.
• Advising a public authority in a dispute before a Dispute Adjudication Board, involving a claim for delay and disruption as a result of allegedly unforeseeable conditions in the laying of an electricity cable system between two Gulf States.
• Representing an insurance company in an arbitration (ICC Geneva) in which its Russian joint venture partner sought to challenge an English-law shareholders' agreement, alleging that it was contrary to Russian law and thus void.
• Representing an oil company seeking to defend its project financing structure in the British Virgin Islands against insolvency actions based on allegations of fraud, brought by the creditor of a third party.
• Representing a member of a home improvement chain which had obtained an award in an arbitration (ICC Lausanne) and was seeking to enforce it. Faced with long delays in China (the respondents' place of registration) the claimant sought to freeze assets in the Cayman Islands and Mauritius.
• Advising a nuclear energy company tendering for the erection of up to 13 power plants in a Southern African state.
• Advising a state party to a trading rights dispute before the World Trade Organisation.

AFFILIATIONS
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - ACIArb
ICDR Young & International
LCIA Young International Arbitration Group

EDUCATION
2008: International Bar Association, Diploma in International Arbitration 2000-2001 Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent) (Lincoln’s Inn Sir Thomas More Bursary and Hardwicke Scholarship)
1999-2000 College of Law: Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)
1997-1999 Trinity College, Cambridge: BA (Hons) in English Literature as an affiliated student (first class) (Trinity College Tripos Prize)
1994-1996 University of Cape Town, South Africa: BA in Classics and English Literature (Distinction) (Roderick Noble Scholarship, for the top graduate in the University of Cape Town Arts Faculty).

LANGUAGES
English, French, Afrikaans

LECTURES
Gypsies and Travellers: the Planning Law Context (26/11/2005)
Access to Information in the Planning Context (12/10/2005)
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders: a Practical Overview (7/7/2004)
Reasons for a Grant of Planning Permission: the New Provisions (26/2/2004)
Gypsies and the Planning Context: some Recent Developments in Case Law (28/10/2003)
Employee Internet Management (18/9/2003)
Traffic Regulation Orders and Parking (3/7/2003)
Employment Law: the Basics (19/3/2003)

CLERKS EMAIL
Daniel Perry and Anthony King